Definitions for emendations

emendations e·men·da·tion

Spelling: [ee-muh n-dey-shuh n, em-uh n-]
IPA: /ˌi mənˈdeɪ ʃən, ˌɛm ən-/

Emendations is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 1242 anagrams from letters in emendations (adeeimnnost).

Definitions for emendations

noun

  1. a correction or change, as of a text.
  2. the act of emending.

Origin of emendations

1530-40; Latin ēmendātiōn- (stem of ēmendātiō), equivalent to ēmendāt(us) (see emendate) + -iōn- -ion

Examples for emendations

Not that quite; but, rather, a question of emendation and revision.

The one fault you found is just: but I cannot please myself in an emendation.

Neither did the orthodox, at first, refuse admittance to the spirit of emendation.

Moreover, it would have been easy, to supply the emendation.

There does not seem any reason for Tyrrell's emendation of num for nam.

An emendation has been proposed, by which "Lebanon" should be transferred from ver.

The meaning of the verse is obvious, whether the emendation is accepted or not.

With him, the work of revision and emendation was never finished.

The emendation is plausible, even probable, but not warranted by necessity.

It is purely an Americanism, and is possibly but an emendation of our own word elope.

Word Value for emendations
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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